Card #06: Symptoms versus legal conclusion
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Why serious symptoms do not decide the verdict by themselves.
[VERIFIED FACT] The Massachusetts criminal-responsibility test asks whether mental disease or defect removed substantial capacity to appreciate wrongfulness or conform conduct to law; a diagnosis alone does not resolve that test. [Massachusetts model instruction](https://www.mass.gov/info-details/model-jury-instructions-on-homicide-i-criminal-responsibility)
[UNKNOWN] Defense expert testimony addressing that ultimate question had not begun by the Day 11 cutoff. [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
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